The power of community, in this case the immigrant community to communicate the need for streets safe for bikes, strollers and pedestrians. They won!
“Believe me, I felt my heart was pounding, but this time it was out of joy! I was jumping for joy, that after everything we’d gone through, it was finally going to happen. And now I’ve seen them working on the bike lane, they’ve been marking the lines on the pavement.
Cristína González: We have to thank Mayor De Blasio. It seems like he heard us, and we are grateful for that, because when we went to the community board meeting, there were a lot of people against the bike lane. But sometimes when you talk directly to the big shot, things happen.”
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